Accepting Quote by Jimmy Santiago Baca

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

— Lisa Bonet

“Going into any prison is deeply confusing if you know anything about the racial demographics of America. The extreme overrepresentation of people of color,…

— Bryan Stevenson

“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”

— Angela Y. Davis

Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the…

— Chelsea Manning

We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.

— Augusto Pinochet

Most prisons in this country are in the middle of nowhere, which makes it much easier for us all to throw those people away.…

— W. Kamau Bell

Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need…

— J. B. Pritzker

One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has…

— Angela Davis

Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.

— Terry McMillan

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

— Molly Ivins

They are trying to lock up as many of us up as possible to put us in penitentiaries for free labor. You have the…

— Eddie Griffin

Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until…

— Ava DuVernay